at midnight moscow time the badge of peace for a region in turmoil the e.u. gets its nobel prize but hundreds of protesters joined the voices saying it doesn't deserve the. egypt's opposition calls for more protests across the country are rejecting the referendum on the new is myspace constitution. and the regime and the opposition in bahrain say they're ready to sit at the negotiating table but many believe the divisions run just too deep to end twenty. three good morning for me kevin i would hear the new scent of the smalling if you

just joined this our top story the european union is three presidents have received this year's nobel peace prize on behalf of the group it's been given to commend the e.u. for fostering peace but not everyone agrees hundreds marched through the norwegian capital in protest peter all of it looks at why many believe the e.u. doesn't deserve the prize while the whole nobel institution may no need to rethink . mark or little children. will one day live in a nation where they will not be deterred. by the content of their character. the one it can be probably would have become a laureate to the home. however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person but this is when a test such trying especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gongs sparked a heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage of

who's picked it up recently well to be frank inside the united states i don't think very many people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood see what's. done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's with the of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrators outraged by the failure of the government's. skeptics. but it devalues the whole concept of the nobel peace prize and what's really happening is that the european union is having its worst year ever at its mates and the international community coming to it's a brit to have been awarded of the announcement to be made in the very week that i

went to athens i was greeted not just by tens of thousands of protesters but people dressed up in swastikas and giving it. frankly i grew up in a europe that was divided from east to west but i'm now living in a europe that is divided from north to south and never at any point in the history of this union has there been. more discord and rancor that we currently got among more moderate forces there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot of discredit past people who've won this prize i mean it demonstrates a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this war and now it's been suggested that this year's winner of the peace prize picked it up more for not having done something as opposed to having food the peace around the globe it seems like they got the prize more because there hasn't been any war in europe for many decades

rather than having done anything specific i think as long as civic institutions like the nobel prize continue to lose their legitimacy in their spirit through political favoritism and these prizes are always political but such blatant and obvious political favoritism and maneuvering i think it actually takes something away and i think it's actually damaging that leaves the whole institution of the prize facing the question whether the nobility is being drained from the know down peter all over r t. well john laughlin for the institute of democracy and cooperation and of you says the should not have received the award has its policies don't promote peace there has not been peace in europe for the last sixty years as the president of the european council said everybody knows that there was a war against yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety in which european states e.u. member states participated very fully they attacked you. so one cannot say that

there has been peace of europe since them in any case if we look further afield with syria the european union's policy the actual policy of the european union as an organization that would mind its member states has been in my view to fan the flames of the conflict in syria and not to act as a peace broker so there is literally no way in which we can say that the european union has fostered peace. so also an unstable situation in the european markets too is at least technocrat leader says his time in office will soon be up. to go reaction to that we look at what's in store for the ailing euros and with seemingly no way out of the crisis. egypt's military is taking over the country's security and given powers of arrest in the run up to the referendum next week votes being rejected by the opposition as unrepresentative and with cause to stage mass nationwide protests getting louder president morsi is trying to make more concessions but it hasn't ease the tension as journalist bell true reports from cairo. this morning president mohamed morsi truck this is done

the decision to increase tax burdens on the country is a sales tax on consumer goods and services this is seen to be quite popular for him in the face of much to sense the increased tax burdens were supposed to be part of i.m.f. loan international monetary fund loan four point eight billion dollars in the country to be trying to secure a recently definitely these reducing these tax burdens will perhaps make it more popular among the streets however yesterday of course the national salvation front become a nation of opposition forces going in many of these protests around the city so they completely reject the concept of a referendum set to be next week and have called for protests they say the constitution will only enforce a presidential dictatorship i mean it's. key social economic demands as well as big percentage of the country as it was drafted by islamist dominated constituent assembly to here in cairo really expecting big crowds on choose day against the

president's account of protests was arranged by a new coalition of islamic forces of course the president's own choose day they said they want to have a million people on the streets in support of the president of course with the background of violence on wednesday between rival protest groups right here at the presidential palace which bloody scenes in the streets of cairo that she reasons we've now been told the president has also been a tree to step in and secure the nation in addition to giving power to arrest citizens this has been much criticism from the protesters who feel that the military will take a heavy hand this comes off the minute you of course egypt hosni mubarak stepped down last year which witnessed quite a heavy and bloody crackdown on protesters during the last between the transition period last night at the protest in front of the presidential palace protesting screens to teach all. minutes human rights violations towards protesters on the

screens of the president the president on the walls of the presidential palace they said to remind people of what the military is capable of right now the republican guard still have their tanks outside the palace they have erected twelve barriers which the protesters did manage to push through but it's still a sign that maybe we'll see more tanks on the streets as the descent continues in the lead up to this controversial referendum bill true there with the army now in charge of egypt's security many fear the country may be slipping back into military rule as part of khaled el shermie editor of the arab newspaper he told me the military presence is increasing the risk of violence. but in the military. being. quite risky. ironically. it was done by the security so my the scout for the military calling it council in egypt.

last year it was condemned by everybody including more to himself and now he's doing this in being i'm saying it is risky because it will be the ministry officials and pleasure is. really. israel and the unity of the people of egypt always have we still have weak political parties we have a strong civil society in egypt and we think the caribbean. situation has not been discussed. by the people of egypt security and. after that actually what the country. will not fall invasion of trashiest and security and speed for the first time ever in the history of egypt one of egypt's main opposition leaders and a former head of the arab league says morsi is regimes failing to fulfill the

nation's hopes of change or deal with a major economic problems. the change that we want to people hope for dealing with the services education and the rest of the fights but then into the life objections have not really produced anything new fifty percent of the country lives in poverty the illiteracy the. unemployment problems that have not been addressed until this moment this is the point that one many of us as citizens as liberals as nationalists believe that. we are losing time we should. not have this stand still kind of policy we have to move on let us move together the vision of dividing the country dividing the people divide the republic opinion is that our interest.

and just let you know if you don't call it already you can watch artie's full interview with the egyptian opposition leader so in about half an hour's time you're an r.t. tonight. and coming up to how the austerity cuts are affecting people's health in the united kingdom. of public health and the press the n.h.s. they fit continue to think of the now report for their cave number it's about you they said kate this is why i think if the n.h.s. quit until this latest law how we need all the information well not coming up soon they will certify despite the prospect of rain in the deep divisions between the opposition and the ruling family that could prove too big to overcome we gauge that too.

an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect a lot of americans fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying the n.y.p.d. hunted down the anonymous artist and arrested him for expressing himself having arrested him at his residence they charged him with fifty six counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession for having a deadly terrorist weapon and unloaded twenty two caliber pistol although being in jail won't be pleasant perhaps arzt as some actually in the end got what he wanted

he proved to the world that big brother surveilled him and arrested him all for throwing up a few posters looks like he proved his point but that's just my opinion. admission and free accreditation free zones for judges free arrangement of free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media dog r t dot com. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.

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actually midnight fifteen here in moscow tuberculosis is on the rise in britain faster than anywhere else in europe a leading u.k. doctor warms the country will be swamped unless immigrants get blood test of probably diagnose to see if they've got it almost three quarters of the people suffering from the disease are people not born in the u.k. r.t. sarah ferguson london. austerity is fighting pretty much every sector and it's a time of year when the n.h.s. already incredibly eva stretches even further by everyone's coughs and sniffles and i think that's really positive what's made this recent study that showing that the number of cases of tb in the casing continually rising over the party decades so alarming knowing thousand cases last year that's up five percent from the year

before and i think a real question here over whether or not the n.h.s. that is facing these huge cuts to the services with these austerity measures is actually going to be equipped to deal with this threat to our health let's help me out so that i caught up a little earlier with dr addie's story he works on the very front line here in london with identifying and cheating people who have to vote he later said and he spoke to me about some of the dangers of this current situation this is something that it's right back to the 1980's has been going a long time why haven't we been able to bring our system up to date to do this effectively well i think. there's been a number of challenges. but certainly no challenge that could be overcome many of our european partners move on north american partners have successfully contained and controlled tuberculosis facing the exact same challenges that we face those big

principally increasing gratian increasing rates of tb internationally due to a new choice. and in many cases increasing problems of parts of the community that are suffering extreme social deprivation due to sort of the culture a lot of years going to be watching this and saying you know we're hearing all the time about these cuts to the n.h.s. about your thirty minutes is affecting you know our health sector and yet we're seeing these you know incredibly high numbers of tuberculosis cases it's quite a scary situation i think for the high. selected to been might now is a scary situation to be index linked to poverty if you look at rates of disease across europe the most important correlating factor is poverty. tb is a disease that finds its knees in pockets of the community who are down on their luck because obviously under immunologically we're going to tell who to be we have to get out of the hospitals into the community service to the affected communities

and ensure that they can get faster interest diagnostics and good support through treatment which is a minimum of six months when i was speaking to dr ali he deals with the sufferance here in london working every day on the front line and he created public health is posts it's the ball and that really sort of sense shivers down your spine because you know at the moment what we're seeing is the economy as a whole here in the u.k. is sick and unfortunately the government's kill for that is austerity measures and we're going to see we're already seeing the implications of cutting to a health service at a time when it's time to say much pressure and you know these stories i think are really going to keep on coming as we see the effects of. yes sir firth will be there but earlier on tonight there's more a web site r.t. dot com to reporting there moscow preparing now approve the list of americans who allegedly violated human rights that's in response to washington's magnitsky bill that accuses russians of the same when read up more about that's been going back and forth for a while now we've got the latest on our web site also how's this for

a killer make it a headline for the wrong reasons apple's the taurus new i phone now labeled life threatening in australia have been misleading travelers wrong towns towns are going to exist in the scorching outback breakdown there you've got problems when we don't know where it's at r.t. dot com. there's unrest on the markets after italy's technocrat prime minister mario monti monti announced that he was planning to leave his post but former pm silvio berlusconi's thrown his hat into the ring as well again after he withdrew his party's support for the government now monti says he'll go after next year's budget is passed which could see an election therefore in february which is it earlier than expected elsewhere meantime the greek prime minister is trying to secure more support from germany's wealthy and conservative region of bavaria we brought that she yesterday and earlier on credit has agreed to prop greece up with another forty four billion euros i suppose the greek attorney george felos see from the real solutions is spite of the i just said

a long way off. so most go to me. well. listen you shouldn't do it but then of course includes. no. bute is an easy to. control just that you are going to example even to the. national military fund. but of course it's real easy for you to so such a policy. experience so. the simple you serious as usual more of. a cell phone for people with. such. according bahrain's jailed the daughter of a prominent opposition activist for one month for taking part in a demonstration it's just third conviction the past six months with a further thought other serving life for party against the ruling family the

uprising a bahrain has been going on from us two years now all of the opposition of the regime say they are ready for dialogue however as alexia cesky reports their divisions might run too deep for any lasting peace. said dick says his life was shattered his sits on a municipal council in bahrain and several months ago he was shot by police during a peaceful protest looking at his injuries his lucky to be alive they had been online while i was with many of the protesters when we were faced by riot police they did not hesitate to shoot us directly to the head of the bullets the police are using for hunting birds and animals i've been shot with over one hundred ninety two pellets scattered all over my body in the head face arms legs the most dangerous ones are those inside my lungs. is just one of hundreds who have suffered in the anti-government protests that started around twenty months ago when revolution fever was sweeping the middle east and north africa the descent in

bahrain differs little from that in nation swept by the arab spring but the stories never stop it is a belief in different areas against the regime against that because of the civil against the situation around one thousand five hundred dozen others we have. every day we have a lot of. security forces surrounding the areas attacking the people are taking their houses given the outcome of the arab spring of evils bahrain's ruling elite is doing its best to stamp out revolt the government recently slapped a ban on all public gatherings bahrain's chief of police says it's not permanent but it is necessary we have introduced a temporary restriction on gatherings and protests and betters. one reason because lately we have seen that these gatherings and protests have been taking. more violent. methods and one year we had over four hundred protests in bahrain

that's more than one protest but today and we have tried to solve the problem however they didn't seem to be able to control protests and the gatherings despite the ban and the risk of arrest people are still gathering the hard core of the protest comes from poor neighborhoods as soon as we reached one we needed he encountered a small in peaceful antigovernment surrounding. the summer simplicity to estimate how many people are actually taking part in protests now many in bahrain fact is that these protesters are being supported by the local shia community which make up to seventy percent of this country's population. the ruling elite are sunni muslims and this may look like a sectarian war but the authorities firmly reject their actions are religiously motivated there is a radical movement in the opposition party they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government they seek

a secretary in theocracy and that is unacceptable so all because i feel out of desperation they know that they don't have the support of the rest of the population of bahrain they have turned to these violent means the protests are gathering momentum and allegations of torture in prisons are leading to serious international pressure being put on my so bahrain's rulers find themselves in a tough position they want dialogue with dissenters but the question is whether they will be satisfied with what the king has to offer. ski r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain news making headlines right now fresh protests have hit the northern irish city of belfast over the local council to sit in to remove the union flag there from the town council building. please use water cannon to disperse the rioting crowds biology returned a few days after thousands of protesters rallied outside belfast city hall against the irish trickle as were burned as the crowd chanted and sang sectarian songs

twenty six protesters including three teenagers have been charged with public order offense it's. more will be taliban assault on a police station in northwestern pakistan has left at least eight people dead three attackers reportedly fired rockets and grenades in a battle that lasted over an hour to insurgents detonated civil side vest during the clash the local taliban says the attack was to avenge the death of a relative of the former commander. an earthquake measuring five point six on the richter scale hit the philippines real scenes of destruction there so already of course trying to recover from the devastation caused by last week's deadly typhoon nearly a thousand people are still missing after the site closed while survivors in the worst hit areas are suffering severe food shortages landslides and flash floods killed more than six hundred people that left more than four hundred thousand ogress. pictures here a funeral of a prominent official responsible for women's affairs she was assassinated earlier

monday in afghanistan and she was shot dead but to want to dent of five men well on her way to work it comes just months after that also a woman was killed in a bomb attack. the western warnings asserting over syria's chemical weapons but nearby israel's got another worry on its mind right now that that arsenal could get into the hands of hezbollah for israel such arms being controlled by what it considers to be a terrorist group would be a real red line markers papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine told us these concerns are not groundless either. there's a very strong possibility that the syrian militants could very well acquire chemical weapons which of course would be catastrophic not just for syria but for the entire region it might be an inconvenient truth to many was western politicians but of course the islamists in syria who are largely representative of the militants they wouldn't hesitate to use them against syria's minorities and they

certainly wouldn't hesitate to use them against israel the israelis then not concerned that the syrian government would use chemical weapons against israel they are very concerned that the militants in syria would use them and if they are quiet then it could be a pretext that's what the west issues in conceivably america to intervene in the syria they claimed in the run up to the invasion of iraq the reason for going in iraq had weapons of mass destruction nothing was found intervene in libya colonel gadhafi forces we're told we're going to slaughter. our sons and thousands of libyan civilians there was never any evidence for that spend once again yes there's a very realistic possibility that the militants in syria could acquire chemical weapons and of course who would be responsible for that would be those countries around the world in particular in the region turkey saudi arabia gets are starting western countries that are doing absolutely everything they can at the moment to

weaken the syrian government. so up to twenty minutes past midnight here in moscow thanks for being with us katie say with the business news on the koto the global warming treaty from in a good news either now russia's pulled its very first straight after meeting and give us the generous effect of the business too isn't it yeah absolutely there's lots of controversy at the moment as to whether the actual treaty should be in place because people have criticized over the years because a lot of layers the u.s. strategy of the never signed up to the first place exactly china was and ever and as well the question of play one of the biggest culprits in terms of call carbon emissions you have got new zealand in it you have got japan into any well kevin this is the polar ice caps continue to melt or do they could be depends who you listen to some people say no global warming for fifteen years but when you go to business school we do know that three minutes time after the break stay with us for that.

wilderness that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these parts no prepackaged comfort but they joy is a while this is guaranteed if gagne's a zoology professor he works in the us and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he can't find untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprisingly you'll go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper field before before before. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small weaver. where the bears are.